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AIDS Text: AIDS is a disease that kills. It is caused by a virus called HIV. Sharing needles or having sex with an AIDS patient spreads it. More and more people are at risk. A person with AIDS can get sick in different ways. Half of the people who ha

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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Thats more than a folksy aphorism when it comes to infectious diseases. Because according to a report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, its more cost effective to reduce the cases of a disease i

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The numbers are frightening: in 2002 more than 40 million people in the world were living with HIV or AIDS. Of these, about 3 million were children and more than 11 million were between 15 and 24. Since the first case was discovered in 1981, nearly 2

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Xiaohua is 12 and lives in a province in South China. She is a happy girl who smiles a lot and likes to talk to her friends after school. People who see Xiaohua would never guess that she is one of millions of children in the world living and dying

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Chronic diseases top killer in China

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学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 2362 proportion

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VOA标准英语2009年-World AIDS Day - Ongoing Stigma Hinder

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专家:MERS不会持续人传人

A 44-year-old man from South Korea is being treated in isolation. Medical staff say he suffers from a high fever and a possibly infectious pneumonia. According to authorities, the man had close contact with his father and sister, the third and fourth

2016年CRI Imported Zika Cases in China Rise to Five

The two new cases involve a 38-year-old man and his eight-year-old son from Yiwu City in Zhejiang Province. Xiong Huang with the National Health and Family Planning Commission has an update on all of the patients. Currently, a Zika patient in Jiangxi